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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Charlotte McLaughlin

Brooches which copy London palace’s stained glass windows return home

The brooches and the window at Eltham Palace (English Heritage/PA) -

Two diamond-encrusted Cartier brooches once owned by the socialite Virginia Courtauld are going on display at her former medieval palace home in London, which has windows with a design similar to the jewellery.

Eltham Palace, a former Tudor residence, was transformed in the 1930s by the daughter of an Italian shipping merchant and her husband, Sir Stephen Courtauld, into an art-deco home, with a nod to the original features.

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